By Laurie Nadel When I was two years old, my family moved into a two-story stucco and brick house on East 27th Street in the Flatbush...
My family has been by my side from the beginning– from the earliest days of our childhood when my father first started telling us the amazing...
By Selma Jackson Growing up in the Bronx, my parents, James and Anna McNeely made every effort to make holidays special for their five daughters. I...
By Suzanne Spellen My mother and I moved to Bedford Stuyvesant in 1983. We rented a small, three-and-a-half story brownstone on Jefferson Avenue, between Marcy and...
The Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, for 25 years, under the guidance of its founder, Carolyn Butts, has presented compelling films by and about...
Lena Gates, Principal of the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Junior High School, and American Airlines recently announced a partnership that...
Congratulations to David C. Banks, Chancellor, New York City Board of Education, and Councilwoman Rita C. Joseph, chair of the...
Dr. Christopher Blaszczak, originator of Our Time Press’ recurring STEM NEWS columns, pre-pandemic, returns to this paper as a columnist...
By Charlene CrowellAs college students settle into campus life, many Black Americans remember the multi-generational sacrifices that have established higher...
45 new superintendents to begin work tomorrow, July 1 NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Schools...
The college-choice decision of Morehouse in Atlanta as a goal came very early, and easy, to 14-year-old Zion of Green...
By Mary Alice MillerDewey Doughtry bought his home in Bed Stuy 30 years ago. In the past fourteen years, he...
Noelle Hanrahan, Esq.Prisondio Co-DirectorWe are locked in conflict up on the 8th floor of the Common Pleas Courthouse in Philadelphia,...
The Brooklyn NAACP celebrated 100 years of “advancing the cause of Civil Rights & Social Justice” at an evening gala...
By Dr. Brenda M. Greene The IssuesDr. Haki R. Madhubuti, poet, publisher, editor, educator, founder, and publisher of Third World...
In his reflections on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first argument on the court, Ian Prasad Philbrick writing in The New York...
On the first Monday in October, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson began her journey as an Associate Justice of the Supreme...